The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-14
lOF GENERAL INTEREST.

AT Carson Chinese opium smokers
are made to clean the streets.
The word miscreant, two centuries
since. meant merely q misbeliever In
the Catholic Church.
They are beginning to call the
American Exhibition, that is to be in
London, THE Yankeries."
The Temple Emanuel in New York
has an organ with four thousand four
hundred and twenty-four pipes.
"A man near Atlanta, Ga, has
found one thousand one hundred and
ninety dollars in five-dollar gold pieces
The oldest library in the world Is
that of Kwotozo-Kien, which was -
tablished during the Chow dynasty in
China (B. C. 11l2).
1t is all very well to talk about
mind reading, but the thing that should
be encouraged is newspaper reading
Burlington Hawkeye.
1t is believed that thousands will
be added this year to Alaska'S pOpula-
ton, as mining and exploring are to %
energetically prosecuted.
"A Canadian editor describes his
contemporary as ''that freak against
natures laws sandwiched between .
weazen ed-up soul and diseased mag
nation"
The British war-ship Raven is re-
ported to have been saved from de-
struction in a cyclone in the South Pa
cific by liberal use of oil, which stilled
the stormy waters.
"A seminary for young ladies al
Lasell, Mass, has issued beautifully
illustrated catalogue in which an
nouncement is made that Pains is
taken to cultivate the best habits In
speaking and writing the English Ian
guage. "-Cincinndt Times.
"A Philadelphia economist figures
out the reduction of car fare in that
city from six to five cents as positive
loss to poor people. He says that
when they walked before they saved
six cents, and now they only save five
Christian at Work.
AN Alderney cow is now an essen
tial appurtenance aboard a well ap-
pointed pleasure yacht. James Gordon
Bennett has one packed into q zinc
stall on the NamOuna, so the choicest
cream can be had at every meal. The
cow says she likes yachting.
Only a couple of copper cents and
a few pieces of brick were found in the
stomach of an ostrich recently dis
sected at the Philadelphia Zoo. Ths
dissectors expected 70 find rings. gold
watches, jack-knives, nails, ETC., and
were accordingly much disappointed.
England is the only country in
Europe where the military forces are
recruited by voluntary enlistment.
Therefore her industries benefit enor-
mously by the comparatively small
number of young men withdrawn from
them and saddled upon the national
Chicago Times.
A woOdcutter in the forests near
Bangor. Me-, was the victim of singu-
lar illness few days ago. His pro-
visions ran short and he was compelled
to eat cracked corn to save himself
from starving. He drank a great deal
Of water and the corn swelled, and but
for the timely arrival of a doctor Ia
would have died.
i The electric railroads in Los Angs-
les, Cal, where the climate is consid-
cred to be the most favorable for them,
are decided failures. One electric
road, about one and a half miles in
length, requires an engine of about
fifty horsepower to supply the electric
ity of two cars, and. at this rate, is con-
sidered not profitable.
THAT cells can live without water
for at least eighteen days. is demon
strated by recent occurrence at tho
South Kensington Aquarium, London.
Eighteen days after tank had been re-
moved, ten cells were found secreted in
. perfectly dry crevice of the adjoining
masonry. When placed in water they
speedily became as lively IS sver.-N
T.. Lredoer. 1900.